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INFRASTRUCTURE AUSTRALIA APRIL 2010 43
Communications
The federal government has passed legislation that
requires new homes to be connected via optical bre
instead of copper technology, and for new passive
infrastructure such as pits or ducts to be made bre-
ready. e new Telecommunications Legislation Amendment
(Fibre Deployment) Bill 2010 updates the Telecommunications
Act 1997.
According to the minister for broadband, communications
and the digital economy, Stephen Conroy, these changes are to
complement the National Broadband Network.
"It doesn t make sense for new houses to be tted with old
copper technology, particularly when it is easier to put bre or
bre-ready technology in when homes are rst built," Conroy
said.
Under the legislation, the minister responsible for communi-
cations will be able to specify new developments that may have
exemption. e bill also provides the minister with the ability
to de ne, in subordinate legislation, what a bre-ready facility
is. Conroy said the subordinate legislation would be developed
and released for public comment and parliamentary scrutiny.
e bill also makes it easier to create codes and standards for
optical bre infrastructure and services.
New laws for optical
fibre installation
The ve rst release sites have
been selected by NBN Com-
pany (NBN Co) to roll out
the high-speed broadband
bre-to-the-premise (FTTP) network
as part of live trials of its network
design and construction methods on
mainland Australia.
The first release sites have been
selected to test the impact on the roll-
out of di erent terrain, housing type
and density, demographics, climate,
existing infrastructure and other local
factors. e sites also allow NBN Co
to trial the technology and determine
how it will interact with retail service
providers.
NBN Co chief executive o cer Mike
Quigley said: " e rst release sites will
allow us to validate our network design
and the total end-to-end systems in a
live environment, following full test-
ing in our integration labs. It will also
allow us to test di erent construction
techniques, so we have selected sites
that represent the diversity of situations
we will encounter across Australia in the
volume rollout."
e selection includes a suburban area
where semi-detached houses, detached
houses and apartment blocks all need to
be connected.
A smaller rural town with more dis-
persed housing, and three other sites
representing a mix of major regional,
smaller regional and di ering climate
and geography have also been selected.
Approximately 3000 premises are in each
area selected, except the rural town where
there are fewer dwellings.
A part of the suburb of Brunswick in
Melbourne; an area of Townsville cover-
ing parts of the suburbs of Aitkenvale and
Mundingburra; the coastal communities
of Minnamurra and Kiama Downs south
of Wollongong; an area of west Armidale,
NSW, including the University of New
England; and the rural town of Willunga
in South Australia were the selected com-
munities.
NBN Co has issued a request for
proposal (RFP) seeking suitably quali-
ed companies to participate in the
local design development speci c to
the selected sites. It will then enter a
detailed design phase. is will involve
extensive survey and site examination
works by network planners and will
take several months to complete.
Following the design phase, actual
construction work on the rst release
rollout is expected to start early in the
second half of the year, and will be
conducted in three stages. Stage one
will see the deployment of the passive
components of the network including
the bre optic cable.
In stage two, NBN Co will deploy
equipment that allows NBN Co to light
up the bre in readiness for service
delivery. Stage three involves working
with retail service providers to give
them access to the network and, via the
network, to end-users so RSPs can test
their retail services.
The first two construction stages
are planned for completion by early
next year.
Sites selected for high-speed network
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